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Stamens 6, filaments united more than halfway up the middle; 

 anthers erect terminal ; cells extrorse parallel. Female flower : 

 " Carpels 3 ; stigma foliaceous, deflexed." Drupes ovoid, somewhat 

 compressed from the outer surface ; scar of style subterminal ; 

 putamen filamentous or woolly outside, with a hollowed surface ; 

 process intruded, oblong, hemispherical. Seed meniscoid j albumen 

 fleshy; cotyledons divaricating. — Leaves cordate or hastate. "Flowers 

 in simple slender elongated subfasciculate racemes " {Tropical 

 America). See p. 14. 



22. Fibraurea Lour. — Sepals 9 ; outer 3 small, bract-like ; inner 

 layer subequal. Petals 0. Stamens 6 (sterile in female flower), 

 free, attenuate clavate about the incurved apex ; anther-cells adnate 

 at apex, diverging below. Carpels 3 ; stigmas excentric, small. 

 Drupes oblong, somewhat compressed ; scar of style terminal ; 

 surface of putamen sulcate ; process high-intruded. Seed similar in 

 form, surface hollowed; albumen ruminated. — Leaves ovate or 

 oblong coriaceous 3-nerved. Flowers in very much branched 

 racemes, solitary pedicellate on branches {Malaysia, Indian Archi* 

 felago). See p. 14. 



23. Burasaia Dup.-Th. — Sepals 6-15, in 2-5 series; outer 

 smaller, bract-like. Petals 6, smaller, oblong-ovate. Stamens 6 

 (sterile in female flower) ; filaments short, connate at base ; anthers 

 longer, 2-celled ; cells introrse subparallel close to apex. Carpels 3 ; 

 styles foliaceous, reflexed ; apex shortly 2-fid. Ovules 2 ; smaller 

 abortive. Drupes unequally ovoid, scarcely compressed; scar of 

 style terminal ; putamen straight, filamentous- woolly outside, surface 

 Ion o-itudin ally sulcate ; process intruded, obtuse. Seed of the same 

 form as its situation, surface more or less hollowed ; albumen 

 fleshy, abundant, ruminated; cotyledons membranous, flattened, 

 divaricate. — Feeble shrubs ; leaves alternate long-petiolate 

 3-foliolate coriaceous ; flowers in axillary few-flowered racemes 

 {Madagascar). See p. 14. 



24. Parabsena Miers. — Flowers almost of Chasmanthera ; sepals 

 6 ; petals 6, shorter obovate or 3-lobed. Stamens (sterile free in 

 female flower) united into a central column; anthers 6 coalesced 



